Miranda July Quotes

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Miranda July

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• Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Want
  • Band

• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Kid
  • Los Angeles

• The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Together
  • Parents

• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Up
  • Love
  • Experience

• Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Grandparents

• I want to try everything.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Try

• I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Work
  • School
  • Couple

• I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Why
  • Business
  • Questions

• It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Man
  • Know
  • Woman

• I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.

  

  Larry King
  • Thinking
  • Poor
  • Fortunate

• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Happy
  • Rich
  • Concentration

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Tough
  • Islam
  • Original

• There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Character

• I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Way
  • Person
  • Option

• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book
  • Day
  • Either

• People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Mind
  • Cheap

• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  

  Larry David
  • Long
  • Service
  • Army

• Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.

  

  Lauren Potter
  • People
  • Kids
  • Help

• The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

  

  Percy Ross
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Wishes

• Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Life
  • Up
  • Boy

• I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

  

  Miranda July
  • Life
  • You
  • Easy